Bug 73056 – Ardour track names displayed as ascii squares

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Travis Hoffman 2004-12-01 11:38:37 UTC]

On like 866 of /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc it specifies a font for the track name that on mine and many other gentoo systems does not exist.  The font is lucida. I have installed several font packages to try and rememdy the problem but no luck.
However changing the font specified to 
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-8-*-*-*-p-*-*-*
is a good work around for the problem.  If anyone can find the specific package that lucida is in I think it may be a good idea to include it as a depend to ardour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run jackd
2.Start ardour
3.Open up or create a new project

Actual Results:  
Ardour loads a music project and the names of each audio track are scrambled in
ascii squares.

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the text corrrectly.

This problem only seems to be apparent on computers using Xorg.  When i used
Xfree  there were no problems.

[Comment 1 Travis Hoffman 2004-12-01 12:46:07 UTC]

I was just looking through Xorg changelogs and found a patch for a lucida problem.  I am currently installing the latest revision of the ebuild.  This may solve the problem.  If so i am sorry for bothering you.

[Comment 2 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 00:08:27 UTC]

I've got hit by this yesterday. I'll provide a workaround for this problem in the mean time until X.org follows through with the lucida problem.

[Comment 3 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 17:21:00 UTC]

in portage. I think it would be an overkill for you to remerge ardour, just use the sed I've added to the ebuild:

sed -e 's/lucida[^-]*-/helvetica-/' -i /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc